Hello Aroha, Coralie and Jennifer, First of all my apologies for non-response to your inquiries, and thanks to Jennifer for her response which said most of what I would have said. I broke my wrist (right, dammit!) on the day your inquiry hit the list, and I am only just back to fulltime work, and clearing the bottom of my email bin, now. So I am sorry, but in case it's still useful, here goes: On 18 Feb 2002, at 8:26, Coralie wrote:

Kia ora koutou

One of our local iwi research centres has asked me for some help

putting together a funding application to setup a database for their collection of reports, papers and maps - approx. 2000 items (bibliographic detail and keywords). They have some experience with Microsoft Access so are wanting to use this for the database.

Has anyone done anything similar that might be help me guage

with the time

involved in setting up the database.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Regards

Coralie Campbell-Whitehead Circulation and Extension Services Librarian H.B. Williams Memorial Library Ph. 06 867 6709 PO Box 747 Fax 06 867 9068 Peel Street Email: campbell@gpl.govt.nz Gisborne http://www.gpl.govt.nz

On 18 Feb 2002, at 11:18, Jennifer Geard wrote:

Hi All,

...

... I too have an iwi that is wanting to catalogue their library and is wanting information similar to what you have asked. They are also wanting to know what cataloguing programme would best suit their needs. Does anyone know what is available on the market for small

Aroha asked: libraries such as these and costs?

Is Rosalie Blake on this list? Yes

Will she have replied by the time my message goes through? She should have, but she didn't!

Two of the options to consider are Koha http://www.koha.org/ and Greenstone http://www.greenstone.org/. Both are NZ-built: Koha by Katipo in conjunction with Horowhenua Library Trust; Greenstone by Waikato University's NZ Digital Library Project in conjunction with UNESCO and the Humanity Libraries Project. Both are open-source, issued under the GNU public licence. Both software packages are available free of charge.

Note that you'll need one computer that runs Linux if you want to run Koha. Greenstone comes in versions for Windows and Unix (the Unix version works on Linux).

Koha for Windows NT is working now. I've taken the liberty of posting this reply to the koha list, where the techies who know about such things lurk. If you want to know more about running Koha under Windows, a message to the koha list will bring results, I'm sure. You may be interested that Te Wananga o Raukawa is installing Koha in their library in Otaki. Katipo is (I think) helping them with their installation and setup. You can contact katipo at www.katipo.co.nz and join the koha list by following links on that site. Cheers, Rosalie Blake Horowhenua Library Trust